Former touring partners Elton John and Billy Joel found themselves in the same room Thursday night at the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City and proved to the music world that they are not feuding.

My ‘dad’ instincts started when I was very young. My earliest memories of it are from age three. I believe a significant event kick-started it – the news my mother was pregnant and I was going to become a big brother. I was going to have someone to care about – start my fatherly training, if you will.

Nikolai Alekseev, co-founder of Moscow Pride and GayRussia was attacked, as he was about to board a train in Kostroma heading for Moscow, Russia.

Three skinheads dressed in black, wearing white masks that covered their faces, cycled right up to Alekseev, physically and verbally assaulting him, earlier today (5 June).

Alekseev recounted to Gay Star News, while recovering on his train journey: ‘I was about 100 meters from the train station when someone ran into my back with a bicycle.

The BBC has apologized for airing a debate on a radio show where a comedian said he could ‘cure’ gay broadcaster Clare Balding.

Colin Murray and Bob Mills were hosting the live quiz show Fighting Talk on Radio 5 when they began making disparaging remarks about Balding’s sexual orientation.

Finally! Lord Norman Tebbit has used the term ‘lesbian Queen’. Full house!

Yes, Britain’s upper chamber of parliament is to debate the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales – and it’s time to play House of Lords #EqualMarriage Bingo.

Forget two fat ladies or legs 11, this is bingo gone crazy from ‘bestiality’ to ‘polygamy’ to ‘marrying your son’.

It’s been invented by leading British gay and lesbian campaign organization Stonewall to poke fun at the extremists in the Lords who wish to derail LGBT marriage equality.

From a lord who wants to marry his own son and fancies his brother, to an ex archbishop who says marriage equality will lead to polygamy and Nazi persecution, the opponents of gay marriage in Britain's House of Lords are numerous and vocal.

So it will be a stormy debate today and tomorrow (3 and 4 June) when the Lords, the unelected upper chamber of the British parliament, get to debate and vote on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales.

Hong Kong's Big Love Alliance, a coalition of LGBT rights campaigners, held a 'bed-in' for same-sex love in a hotel room earlier this week.

Lesbian socialite Gigi Chao booked a room at five-star Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay for an art exhibition and political statement inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'bed-in' for peace in 1969.

Lesbian comic Sandi Toksvig will join a cast of well experienced British talent in BBC4’s new studio sitcom.

Up The Women, is set in 1910 Britain at the height of the suffragette movement and follows a group of local women starting their own women's rights branch, with hilarious outcomes.

Coronation Street star Charlie Condou is set to speak about being a gay dad at a summit about gay workplace rights.

Condou, who plays a bisexual character in Britain's longest-running TV soap, will be a keynote speaker at Stonewall’s Workplace Conference in Manchester, north west England on 14 June.

He lives with his Canadian boyfriend, Cameron Laux, but is a hands-on dad for his daughter and son, Georgia and Hal, who split their time between him and their mother, the actress Catherine Kanter. The children were conceived through IVF treatment.

When Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, shushed the drummers promoting As One In The Park, it made headlines around the world.

But now festival organizers say they really have something to make a noise about – the festival is all ready to go with nine arenas and 75 artists.

And, in a change of heart, Mirren herself has said she may grace the event with her royal presence.

Church of England bosses have forced their own leader – Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby – to pull support for straight civil partnerships.

It is part of their official response to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales which the government is currently pushing through the UK parliament and which will be debated again today.

The Church of England is the state religion of Britain and its bishops will have a vote on the legislation when it reaches the House of Lords.

The current same-sex marriage bill going through the UK Parliament should be changed to allow for heterosexuals to have civil partnerships, veteran gay activist Peter Tatchell has said.

He is urging Members of Parliament (MPs) to vote for an amendment making the change to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales which is coming before the House of Commons again today (20 May).